The “market” for almost any definition of that you can choose is demonstrably happy with “shit things made fast” provided that the “shit” thing still mostly works. Within rounding error, no one is paying for any artisan hand crafted products. Today it’s AI, last decade it was Chinese products, before that it was Japanese products. If you can get an 80% solution for 50% of the price, most people are doing that. How often do you “sort by price” when shopping? When was the last time you bought the more expensive higher quality version of something you don’t have a passion for?

Or if you want to keep it in the realm of computers, “worse is better” clearly won out. The world uses Linux, not Unix much to the chagrin of the people who wrote the Linux Haters Handbook (regardless of how tongue in cheek that might have been).

And the take away from history should be that AI might be “shit” now, but it will improve. If you don’t remember the days when “Made in Japan” was a marker of “shit”, that’s because things that are “shit” can improve faster than things that are “not shit” can maintain their lead.